List of search engines

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.

Contents [hide] 1 By content/topic 1.1 General 1.2 Geographical limited scope 1.3 Accountancy 1.4 Business 1.5 Enterprise 1.6 Mobile/Handheld 1.7 Job 1.8 Legal 1.9 Medical 1.10 News 1.11 People 1.12 Real property 1.13 Video Games 2 By information type 2.1 Forum 2.2 Blog 2.3 Multimedia 2.4 Source code 2.5 BitTorrent 2.6 Email 2.7 Maps 2.8 Price 2.9 Question and answer 2.9.1 Human answers 2.9.2 Automatic answers 2.10 Natural language 3 By model 3.1 Open source search engines 3.2 Semantic browsing engines 3.3 Social search engines 3.4 Metasearch engines 3.5 Visual search engines 3.6 Search Appliances 3.7 Desktop search engines 3.8 Usenet 4 Based on 4.1 Google 4.2 Yahoo! 4.3 Live Search 4.4 Ask.com 5 Acquired or defunct search engines 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

By content/topic

General

• Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
• Baidu (Chinese)
• Cuil
• Google
• Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
• Sogou (Chinese)
• Sohu (Chinese)
• Yahoo! Search

Geographical limited scope

• Accoona, China/US
• Alleba, Philippines
• Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
• Araby, Middle East
• Baidu, China
• Daum, Korea
• Guruji.com, India
• Goo, Japan
• Leit.is, Iceland
• Miner.hu, Hungary
• Najdi.si, Slovenia
• Naver, Korea
• Onkosh, Middle East
• Rambler, Russia
• Rediff, India
• SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
• Search.ch, Switzerland
• Sesam, Norway, Sweden
• Walla!, Israel
• Yandex, Russia
• ZipLocal, Canada/US

Accountancy

• IFACnet

Business

• Business.com
• GlobalSpec
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise

• AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
• Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
• Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
• dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web
• Endeca: Information Access Platform
• Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
• Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
• Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
• Funnelback: Funnelback Search
• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
• Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
• Northern Light
• Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
• Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
• SAP: TREX
• TeraText: TeraText Suite
• Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
• X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

Mobile/Handheld

• Taptu: taptu mobile/social search

Job

• Bixee.com (India)
• CareerBuilder.com (USA)
• Craigslist (by city)
• Eluta.ca (Canada)
• Hotjobs.com (USA)
• Incruit (Korea)
• Indeed.com (USA)
• Monster.com (USA)
• Recruit.net (International)
• SimplyHired.com (USA)
• TheLadders.com (USA)

Legal

• WestLaw
• Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Quicklaw

Medical

• Bioinformatic Harvester
• Entrez (includes Pubmed)
• EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine
• GenieKnows
• GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
• Healia
• Searchmedica
• WebMD
• PubGene
• Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
• VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)

News

• Google News
• Daylife
• MagPortal
• Newslookup
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Topix.net
• Yahoo! News

People

• PeekYou
• Ex.plode.us
• InfoSpace
• Spock
• Spokeo
• Wink
• Zabasearch.com
• ZoomInfo

Real property

• Fizber.com
• Home.co.uk
• HotPads.com
• Rightmove
• Zillow.com

Video Games

• GenieKnows
• Wazap (Japan)

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

• Omgili

Blog

• Amatomu
• Bloglines
• BlogScope
• IceRocket
• Sphere
• Technorati

Multimedia

• blinkx
• FindSounds
• Google Video
• Picsearch
• Podscope
• SeeqPod
• Veveo
• YouTube
• Pixsta
• Munax PlayAudioVideo
• Yahoo! Video

Source code

• Google Code Search
• JExamples
• Koders
• Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

• Btjunkie
• Demonoid
• FlixFlux
• Isohunt
• Mininova
• The Pirate Bay
• TorrentSpy

Email

• Nicado
• TEK

Maps

• Géoportail
• Google Maps
• MapQuest
• Live Search Maps
• Yahoo! Maps

Price

• Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
• Kelkoo
• MSN Shopping
• MySimon
• PriceGrabber
• PriceRunner
• Shopping.com
• ShopWiki
• Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
• TheFind.com

Question and answer

Human answers

• Answers.com
• eHow
• Live Search QnA
• Uclue
• Yahoo! Answers
• Stack Overflow

Automatic answers

• AskMeNow
• BrainBoost
• True Knowledge
• Wolfram Alpha

Natural language

• Ask.com
• BrainBoost
• hakia
• Lexxe
• Powerset

By model

Open source search engines

• DataparkSearch
• Egothor
• Gonzui
• Grub
• Ht://dig
• Isearch
• Lucene
• Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
• mnoGoSearch
• Namazu
• Nutch
• OpenFTS
• Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
• Sphinx
• SWISH-E
• Terrier Search Engine
• Wikia Search
• Xapian
• YaCy
• Zettair

Semantic browsing engines

• Evri
• Hakia

Social search engines

• ChaCha Search
• Delver
• Eurekster
• Mahalo.com
• OneRiot
• Rollyo
• Trexy
• Wikia search
• Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines

• Brainboost
• ChunkIt!
• Clusty
• Dogpile
• Excite
• Harvester42
• HotBot
• Info.com
• Ixquick
• Kayak
• LeapFish
• Mamma
• Metacrawler
• MetaLib
• Mobissimo
• Myriad Search
• SideStep
• Turbo10
• WebCrawler

Visual search engines

• ChunkIt!
• Grokker
• Kartoo
• Pixsta
• PubGene
• Viewzi

Search Appliances

• Google: Google Search Appliance